All you need to know about Dr. Jerry Buss, the owner of the Los Angeles Lakers who died of cancer Monday at the age of 80, is the following two numbers: 10 and 33. The first is the number of championships the Lakers won under Buss' ownership, the second is the number of seasons he owned the team, including the... Full story »

Five local items of interest to get your Sunday morning started: 1. The Millersville University men's ice hockey club will play Kutztown Sunday at 3:45 in Somerset, N.J. for the Great Northeast Collegiate Hockey Conference title following Saturday's 5-4 semifinal win over Gettysburg College. The Marauder icers will be making their second consecutive appearance in the GNCHC final, having... Full story »

The superb website baseball-reference.com has posted an all-time uniform number link for every MLB club. Stumbled upon the other night and spent a good hour in it. Could have spent longer. You can look up the uniform number (or numbers) for every single player who ever played for any team. It can found by clicking on the team encyclopedia, then... Full story »

ESPN produced a package Thursday on the use of Native American nicknames for sports teams. It's an old, divisive issue that is primarily flamed when a team bearing such a nickname makes a deep playoff run and finds itself in the daily national headlines. The nickname that stands out the most is Redskins, the name owner George Preston Marshall bestowed... Full story »

ESPN announced Tuesday that it has canceled the snowmobile freestyle demo event slated for X Game Tignes next month, citing an internal review of the sport following the death of snowmobiler Caleb Moore on Jan. 31. Moore, a four-time medlist in the extreme sport, died one week after his sled flipped during a trick when the front tips of the... Full story »

What in the name of Rulon Gardner is going on around here? The stunning decision earlier Tuesday by the International Olympic Committee to ax wrestling from the 25 core sports of future Olympiads spits in the face of its own history. It would be like MLB folding the Yankees, or the NFL moving to flag football (brain surgeons, don't... Full story »

The late Dr. Gene Carpenter was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame posthumously last year. Millersville, the program he elevated to national status in NCAA Division II during a sterling 30-year career as head coach, has fallen apart. Head coach Greg Colby resigned Friday to take a job at his alma mater, Illinois. Colby arrived in 2008... Full story »

Commitment. Nothing speaks the word more than getting a tattoo of your new school. Unless you are Reuben Foster. Foster, the top middle linebacker and No. 16-ranked recruit in the nation according to the ESPN 150, committed to Auburn last summer. He celebrated by getting some ink done in the form of an Auburn tattoo. Oops. The Tigers subsequently suffered... Full story »

Well, we're apparently far enough into the Steroids Era that players suspected, but never charged nor suspended, can appear on a cheater's list a second time through. On the heels of Alex Rodriguez's apparent involvement in the Biogenesis scandal (the name of suspected peddler Anthony Bosch's business) in South Florida, Ryan Braun's name has resurfaced, a year after he somehow... Full story »

The Phoenix Coyotes are to the NHL what the Montreal Expos used to be to MLB. You remember the Expos: A no-draw at home (who can forget the Mausoleum), 20-odd games in Puerto Rico towards the end; until some deep pockets bailed them out and shipped 'em off to DC in 2005 to become the Washington Nationals. The saga... Full story »

Phil Mickelson's putt for a round of 59 lipped the cup but didn't fall Thursday during first-round play at the Phoenix Open. He had to "settle" for a 60. How small is the club Lefty would have joined if that putt had dropped? Very small. He would have become just the sixth golfer to card a 59 in PGA... Full story »

If you are old enough, you recall when a motorcycle daredevil -- some might call a madman -- named Evel Knievel ruled the world of outlaw sports with his outrageous attempts at jumping over almost anything on his motorcycle. There was a time, I'd argue, that Knievel was one of the five most famous men in world during those... Full story »

Dave Trembley ascended to the highest level of professional baseball in midseason 2007, when the Baltimore Orioles promoted him to manager following the dismissal of Sam Perlozzo. It was the culmination of a pro career that began some 23 years earlier, when Trembley was named an area scout in the Cubs organization. Along that winding trail -- which stretches... Full story »

Baltimore Ravens safety Bernard Pollard thinks so. Pollard was recently quoted in a piece on CBSsports.com as saying he doesn't think the "NFL will be existence in 30 years." Pollard's reasoning was from a player's perspective: Recent rules changes designed to reduce hitting combined with players getting bigger and stronger is a mix he thinks will turn fans off. ESPN... Full story »

You wanna play with the big boys? Forget football, American. Try Footie. Forbes Magazine reported Monday that Manchester United of the English Premier League became the first sports franchise in history to top $3 billion in value. The Red Devils --English soccer's version of the New York Yankees, to use an analogy for those not familiar -- are perennial EPL... Full story »

Interesting point/counterpoint posted to ESPN today on the worthiness of continuing to play the Pro Bowl, which has been around since the AFL/NFL merger in 1970. This year's edition will be played later Sunday. Kevin Seifert says scrap it. Bill Williamson says recent changes -- including playing the week before the Super Bowl instead of after it, and stripping... Full story »

Villanova's overtime win over No. 3 Syracuse Saturday in Philadelphia, as chronicled by David Jones, was the last regular season meeting between two longtime conference hoops rivals that will go their separate ways at season's end, as the Big East that was but hasn't been for several years disintegrates. Syracuse and Pittsburgh head to the ACC next season; Villanova... Full story »

Reporters Mike Fish and T.J. Quinn of ESPN's Outside The Lines reported Saturday night that Major League Baseball is investigating a series of "wellness clinics" located in South Florida for possible dispensing of performance enhancing drugs ("PEDs") to major league ballplayers. Former San Francisco Giant Melky Cabrera -- suspended last season in the midst of a career year for drug... Full story »

What is up with brothers suddenly dominating the sports pages? We all know abut Supe 47 (checked out on the Roman numerals when it clipped 40) -- nicknamed the HarBowl -- and a topic that has shockingly yet to reach overkill. Possible intentional media restraint? Nah, give it time. We've got another week, kids. That would plenty, thank you... Full story »

Well, at least one Ryan brother is having a good week. ESPN's Adam Schefter reports that the St. Louis Rams will hire former Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator Rob Ryan for the same position. Ryan was fired by the Cowboys at season's end. Ryan's twin brother Rex, the head coach of the New York Jets, on the other hand, was involved... Full story »